On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:32:49 +0000, that Ron Button wrote:

Is there no way that the current rash of lunatic,racialist,misogynistic,and
plain evil posts be diverted or quarantined from this group ?.
I suspect that Damien is possibly deranged,and probably needs help,but in
the meantime every twisted troll that haunt these NGs gather around his
posts like bees around a honeypot,and most of their stuff is either
obscene,vitriolic,or just plain barmy.
So,please,can anything be done to protect us from this very unpleasant
malaise ?

RonB

If you're using Windows, you can install nfilter from here -
http://www.nfilter.org/
FAQ - http://www.nfilter.org/faq.html
It works with Agent, OE etc.
"Nfilter is capable of filtering on any fields that appear in the header
of a news article, not just fields in the overview (normally news clients
can only filter on author, subject, etc). For example, it can filter on
path (eg. all posts from news.foo.net), newsgroups (eg. all posts
cross-posted to alt.foo), nntp-posting-host, etc, etc."


If anyone's using linux, you can use Leafnode from here -
http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/
Leafnode can killfile on *any* header, so no matter if the troll morphs,
you can kill on a header he has no control over.

HTH.